09:11:42 <njsg> the thing is that sometimes there *is* breakage, I think there was one library Gentoo once allowed to be used from the system - cairo, I think - that wouldn't work well
09:13:39 <njsg> using the system-wide shared library should be ok (as in: things will work with no crashes or graphical corruption or...) as far as it's compatible with the bundled library
09:14:17 <njsg> meanwhile, I wonder if the statically-linked NCSA Mosaic binary still runs on IA-32 :-P
16:21:19 <JamminUnit> Things start to become nasty when projects diverge bundled stuff from their originators. Best example is sqlite in Mozilla. I am still grumpy that I cannot use system-sqlite in seamonkey anymore :-(
21:45:58 <alinoge> sqlite is a fair bit more complex than use system jpeg or something.
21:46:28 <alinoge> You can allow some system libraries without letting them run around doing really weird stuff.
21:47:17 <alinoge> The first users of libjpeg-turbo were on Linux because you could just compile the thing to use system jpeg.